Fun Friday - Jane Austen Trivia

Last night I co-hosted a program at my library. I ran Jane Austen Jeopardy.

Here are some of the questions. How many can you get right?

• Along with the story Evelyn, this title makes up the whole of the third volume of the Juvenilia collection.
• The short satirical work, Plan of a Novel, according to Hints from Various Quarters, was written by Jane in response from a letter from this man.
• This brother would become Jane's literary agent.
• Jane accepted and declined a proposal from this family friend.
• The following quote is from this novel: "The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid."
• Neither Northanger Abbey or Persuasion have been made into major motion pictures, however both have been adapted for stage and television including a Northanger Abbey inspired episode of this children's program starting a dog.
• This nonfiction book was written by a member of the Central NJ Region of JASNA
• Isabel, Laura, and Marianne are characters in this epistolary story.
• During the Regency Era these were put on display at the British Museum.

No looking up the answers!